SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Saturday announced the arrest of perpetrators that carried out an explosion in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Monday.
“Tears and anguish of the hearts of our people and the families of the martyrs of Sadr City were our way and our beacon to carry out the arrest operation of the whole cowardly terrorist network that planned and executed the treacherous attack on the Al-Wahilat market,” Kadhimi said in a tweet.
Kadhimi added that the perpetrators would face court and people, and that they would become a “lesson for every sinful, outrageous aggressors”.
A suicide bomber killed 30 people and injured more than 50 others in a crowded market in Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of Eid al-Adha.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s Nasheer news agency said on Telegram. It said one of its militants blew up his explosive vest among the crowds.
It was the third time an explosion has hit Sadr, the mainly Shia Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad, in recent months, with the last one in June wounding 11 people.
In April, the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a market in Sadr City, Baghdad’s main Shi’ite Muslim neighborhood, that killed four people and wounded 20.
Islamic State also claimed responsibility for a bomb attack last January that killed more than 30 in the crowded Tayaran Square market in central Baghdad – Iraq’s first big suicide bombing for three years.
